Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:36:23 08/28/01
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On August 28, 2001 at 04:15:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 27, 2001 at 17:07:10, Roy Eassa wrote: > >but this is exactly the problem, $100M is not real to share with >a bunch of persons. > >Note that a programmer earns like $100k a year, kure is both programmer >AND working for chessbase. european salaries are lower than in the US, >so he gets probably way less than $100k a year. A programmer in europe >is about $40k a year (pretty little nah?), and that can double if they >are real good. The programmers that people talked about are not from USA and I do not know about one programmer from USA who earns much from chess programming because the best chess programs from USA that I know (Crafty and Ferret) are not commercial programs. it is better to earn 1.6M$ now then earning 40K$ a year because 1.6M$ now can be translated to more than 40k$ per year. 40k$ a year is not pretty little and most people in Israel earn less than that. I guess that even if Frans morsh earns 100K$ per year today he is going to be happy to earn 40K$ per year for the rest of his life for computer chess because he cannot feel sure that he is going to earn the same next years because he cannot be sure that his program is going to continue to be number 1 in the ssdf list because there is a competition. I do not believe that most of the other programmers of the top programs earn much from computer chess otherwise they could live from it without another job. I read that the programmers of Junior and tiger have another job and they do not live only from computer chess. Uri
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